Wayman Tisdale (1964 - 2009)
Posted: Saturday, May 16, 2009 by Travis Cody inDamn cancer. It silences voices.
Wayman Tisdale lost his 2 year battle with cancer yesterday. He was 44 years old.
Too young. Too talented. Too full of life.
But even if he wasn't those things, this damn disease doesn't care. Tisdale was a husband, a father, an accomplished jazz musician, a former NBA star, a gold medal winner on the 1984 Olympic basketball team, an inductee into the Collegiate Hall of Fame, and was the first University of Oklahoma player in any sport to have his jersey number retired.
And this damn disease doesn't care.
Tisdale is gone, just like so many other people who battle this disease every day. His light lives on in his music.
The Jimmy V Foundation
The Kay Yow/WBCA Fund
Just think, if people were as non-discriminating as is cancer, wouldn't this be a really much more wonderful world?
Any death brings with it a spate of pain, difficulties, questions and the like, but when it is someone in this particular age range, (or younger too) it makes it that much more difficult I do believe to accept and adjust. So it is that the non-discriminating cancer adds another to its roll. Just a shame, all the same though.